Editing 1543 (section)

== Births ==
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* [[January 18]] (baptized) &ndash; [[Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder|Alfonso Ferrabosco]], Italian composer (d. [[1588]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], Japanese shōgun (d. [[1616]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Johannes Heurnius]], Dutch physician (d. [[1601]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Francesco Fara]], Italian writer (d. [[1591]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Kanō Eitoku]], Japanese painter (d. [[1590]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cPEpAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|isbn=978-0-85229-663-9|page=721}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Charles III, Duke of Lorraine]] (d. [[1608]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Sharaf Khan Bidlisi]], Emir of Bitlis (d. [[1603]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern]], German prince and reigning count palatine of Simmern (d. [[1592]])
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières]], Constable of France (d. [[1626]])
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[George John I, Count Palatine of Veldenz]] (d. [[1592]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Jan Moretus]], Belgian printer (d. [[1610]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Petrus Albinus]], German historian, local history researcher and poet (d. [[1598]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Christine of Hesse]], duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp (1465-1486) (d. [[1604]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Nils Svantesson Sture]], Swedish diplomat (d. [[1567]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Nicasius de Sille]], Dutch diplomat (d. [[1600]])
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Bembo]], Doge of Venice (d. [[1618]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Claudio Acquaviva]], Italian Jesuit (d. [[1615]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Michael Hicks (1543–1612)|Michael Hicks]], English politician (d. [[1612]])
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Kasper Franck]], German theologian (d. [[1584]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Lettice Knollys]], English noblewoman (d. [[1634]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Day |first1=Rosemary |title=The Routledge Companion to the Tudor Age |date=26 July 2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-96253-0 |pages=1585 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgKSouk9fHUC&pg=PA1585 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Riario]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1585]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Catherine of Nassau-Dillenburg]], daughter of William I (d. [[1624]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. [[1617]])
** [[Thomas Deloney]], English novelist and balladeer (d. [[1600]])
** [[Domenico Fontana]], Italian architect (d. [[1607]])
** [[Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama]], first Dalai Lama  (d. [[1588]])
** [[François Pithou]], French lawyer and author (d. [[1621]])
** [[Hayyim ben Joseph Vital]], Syrian Jewish rabbi and mystic (d. [[1620]])
** [[Chen Lin (Ming dynasty)|Chen Lin]], [[Ming Dynasty]] general (d. [[1607]])
* ''probable''
** [[Giovanni Maria Nanino]], Italian composer (d. [[1607]])
** [[Federico Zuccari]], Italian painter (d. [[1609]])